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US Goverment The National Portrait Gallery - The hall of heads. History of the Federal Judiciary - It's the law! American Currency Exhibit - A history of money. Buddy, can you spare a dime? GovSpot - The U.S. Government Information Portal. The United States Mint's Site for Kids - History in your pocket. Library of Congress American Treasures Exhibition Online - Ephemera from America's past. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival Research Catalog - Catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings. National Archives: The Digital Classroom - Educational resources from the National Archives. National Archives Online Exhibit Hall - Some of the more interesting collections in the archives. Census Data Historical United States Census Data Browser - Info about the people and the economy of the United States from 1790 to 1970.
Historic Preservation National Register of Historic Places - What's historic in America? Heritage Preservation - Preserving America's collective heritage. Illustrated Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings - From the Secretary of the Interior. The Star Spangled Banner - Saving the flag that inspired the National Anthem
American Presidents American Experience: The Presidents - Companion to the PBS series. Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-present - A Library of Congress, American Memory page."I Do Solemnly Swear": Presidential Inaugurations - Grandiloquent words, from George to George. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia -- Electronic Text Center - Everything for the inquiring Jeffersonian.Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress - Over 80,000 images online. Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress - A taste of over 20,000 documents housed in the collection. Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project - Lincoln's life in Illinois Mr. Lincoln's White House - The best house he ever lived in. Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film - A Library of Congress - American Memory page Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum - Learn about the thrill-packed presidency of Herbert Hoover. Digital FDR - The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Museum, and Digital Archives. Contains over 10,000 digitized documents. The :30 Second Candidate - A history of political commercials The Nixon-Presley Meeting - The high point of both of their careers? Watergate The -gate that started them all. General Teaching with Historic Places - Educational site from the National Register of Historic Places. History Wired - Highlights of the Smithsonian Institution's collections. Lots to see here. Early American History ushistory.org - Bringing early American history to life. Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America - Destroyed cities and the cities that replaced them. Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials - Relive the hysteria. Loyalist and British Songs - Finger-snappin' tunes of the 1700s. The American Revolution and Its Era - Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Declaration of Independence - Biographies of the signers - presented by the History Channel Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - In God we trust? Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention Home Page - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. A Century of Lawmaking - U.S. Congressional documents and debates, 1774-1873. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Making of America - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Spy Letters of the American Revolution - From the collections of the Clements Library. The Museum of United States Essays and Proofs - Early U.S. Postage and Revenue Stamps 19th Century Lewis & Clark in North Dakota - Well designed site of an important leg of the trip. Peabody Museum-Lewis And Clark - Native American artifacts gathered by Lewis & Clark on their trek Lewis and Cark: Maps of Exploration - An Exhibition of Maps and Navigational Instruments. Meeting of Frontiers - The story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Presented by the LIbrary of Congress. John Brown's Holy War - His violent crusade against slavery. Presented by PBS. Matthew Brady's National Portrait Gallery - Portraits by the famed Civil War photographer
The 20th Century The American Experience - America 1900 - Companion to the PBS documentary. Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 - A Library of Congress - American Memory Page Flapper Station-Main Depot - Boop-boop-be-doop. America in the 1930s - Prosperity is just around the corner New Deal Network - Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. WPA Life Histories--Home Page - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. By the People, For the People - Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page - Images from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information (1939-1945). A Library of Congress - American Memory page. USDA Historical Photos - More agricultural photos. Grandma Knapp's '37 Road Trip - Online version of a delightful photo album. The American 1950s - With an emphasis on the literature of that era. Radio Wire Service News in April 1952 - Analysis of a week's worth of news in Iowa Lotta Living - Postwar modernism and the shape of things to come. Wes Clark's Avocado Memories - Growing up in 1960s suburbia. Greg Knight's Patio Culture - More suburban heritage. Psychedelic '60s: Home Page - Groovy, baby. Free Speech Movement Digital Archive - Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65.The Diggers Archive - Digger history from 1966-68. Eastern United States The Franklin County Publication Archive Index - Massive database of newspaper articles and more from Franklin County, Massachusetts. New Netherland Project - Even old New York was once New Amsterdam The New York Public Library Picture Collection - Primarily photos of New York, but plenty of other photos too. Over 30,000 images. New York Underground & New York Underground - Two different websites, both fascinating. MOVING UPTOWN: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan - From the New York Public Library 100 Years of New York City - From the New York Times. Hudson Valley Ruins - Tours of abandoned buildings in New York's Hudson Valley. Coney Island USA - Step right up. Virtual Jamestown - Visit Jamestown without leaving your seat. The City Beautiful and Washington D.C. - The 1901 plan for Washington D.C. Southern United States Historic New Orleans Collection - History in the Big Easy. Reclaiming the Everglades - South Florida's Natural History. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Mr. Miami Beach - The story of Carl Fisher, an Indiana entrepeneur who turned Florida swampland into the American Riviera. The Florida Postcard Collection - Over 5,000 images. Midwestern United States Ghosts of the Prairie - Dead people who liked the Midwest so much, they decided to stay. The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit - Modern archaeology. The First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1750-1820 - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Ohio Memory - An online scrapbook of Ohio history. Encyclopedia of Cleveland history - Virtual Cleveland at its finest. At Home in the Heartland Online Home - Life in Illinois from 1700 to the present. Chicago Landmarks - Historic sites in the Windy City. Chicago: Historical Information About Chicago - From the Chicago Public Library. The Great Chicago Fire - Hot site. Presented by the Chicago Historical Society The Dramas of Haymarket - The Haymarket Riot. Presented by the Chicago Historical Society. Photographs of the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933 - Over 55,000 images. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Wisconsin Death Trip - Online companion to Michael Lesy's engaging, yet haunting, book. Wisconsin Electronic Reader - Illustrated tidbits of Wisconsin history. Minneapolis Photo Collection - Searchable database of over 10,000 images. MPLS: Long Gone - A wonderful online tour of long gone Minneapolis. Prairie Settlement - Nebraska photographs and family letters. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Western United States History of the American West, 1860-1920 - Over 30,000 photos from the Denver Library. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Jim Janke's Old West Page - Yee-haw! The National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame - Yipee-ki-yay! Colorado Lore, Legend and Fact The American Experience: Lost in the Grand Canyon - Story of the last important exploration within the continental United States Smithsonian Journeys: Ghost Towns by Night Light - Haunting night photographs of Southwest ghost towns.Early Las Vegas - Long before the dawn of neon. The Leona G. and David A. Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives - Jewish pioneers of the wild, wild west. Yipee-ki-oyvey! Trails to Utah and the Pacific - Diaries and Letters: 1846-1869. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Along the Chisholm Trail - The historic cattle trail from Texas to Kansas. California Heritage Digital Image Access Project - 28,000 image of California heritage. California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Los Angeles; Past, Present, & Future Society - The City of the Angels over time Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive - Hot times in the city. The San Diego Hysterical Society - What a great moniker! Salem Public Library Historic Photograph Collections - Thousands of images of Western Oregon. Road Trip! - A guide to funky america
as seen from the highways and byways World's Largest Roadside Atrractions and Gallery of Huge Beings Large Canadian Roadside Attractions. Road Map Collectors Association. American Indians National Museum of the American Indian - From the Smithsonian Institution. Native American Home Pages - Links to many resources African Americans Africans in America - America's journey through slavery The Face of Slavery - Early images of African Americans presented bu the American Museum of Photography. AfriGeneas - African ancestored genealogy from Africa to the Americas. Digital Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - From the New York Public LIbrary The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 American Slave Narratives - An online anthology from the University of Virginia Born in Slavery - Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Tucson's African American Heritage - Includes oral histories The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords - A history of Black journalists and journalism. Asian Americans The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage Internment and Evacuation of San Francisco Japanese . 1942 - Contains an extensive collection of newspaper articles Hispanic Americans Through Our Parent's Eyes: Tucson's Diverse Hispanic Community Social History National Women's History Project American Women's History - A Research Guide Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - Website companion to Ken Burns' documentary Travels for Reform: The Early Work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1852-1861 How the Other Half Lives - A hypertext edition of the 1890 study by Jacob A Riis about life in the tenements of New York. America at Work, America at Leisure - Motion pictures from 1894-1915. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Out Of The Past - Gay & Lesbian History The History Place - Child Labor in America - Dark and haunting. Fire in the Hole - An examination of the mining labor conflicts that shaped the West during the early 1900s. American Radicalism Collection - An eclectic mix of material Red Scare (1918-1921): Home Page - Many images.
National Civil Rights Museum - A comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement in exhibit form Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia Musarium: Without Sanctuary - Lynching photography in America. Warning: Very disturbing material.
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World History Ancient Civilizations NOVA: Mysteries of the First Americans - The 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man and more A Tale of Three Cities - A National Geographic comparison between Alexandria (A.D. 1), Cordoba (A.D. 1000) and New York (A.D. 2000) NOVA: Secrets of Lost Empires - Recreating ancient structures using tools of the past The Oriental Institute - Located at the University of Chicago. A tremendous resource of ancient treasures At the Tomb of Tutankhamen - Presented by National Geographic Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation - The records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun Make a Mummy @ nationalgeographic.com - Do-it-yourself for the budding embalmer NOVA: Ice Mummies - Frozen in Peru for over 5000 years Ancient Mexico - The art, culture, and history of ancient mesoamerica Mesoweb - An exploration of Mesoamerican cultures Cave of the Warrior - See what was found in an old cave near Jericho. Theban Mapping Project - An interesting project in Egypt NOVA: Treasures of the Sunken City - Discover the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views - The longest unbroken succession of maps of any country in the world The Atrium: For Devotees of Ancient Greece & Rome The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization - Presented by PBS Capitolium.org - Rome's imperial forums Roman Gladitorial Games - Those who are about to die salute you. From Jesus to Christ - The First Christians - Presented by PBS' Frontline The Christian Catacombs of Rome - Presented in twelve languages Aphrodisias - Graeco-Roman archaeological finds in Turkey Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China - An academic site with a wealth of information Arctic Studies Center - Ancient life above the Arctic Circle. Brrr! Current Archaeology - Britain's leading archaeology magazine with links to some amazing databases NativeWeb - an Internet Community - Resources for indigenous cultures around the world Computer Generated Reconstructions Ancient Civilizations seen through CG Human Evolution - Fossil evidence in 3D Europe British History - Searchable database from 10,000 B.C. through the present The Heuneburgmuseum - Ancient Celts Stone Pages - Stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts in Europe The Iron Age in Southwest Sweden Labyrinth Home Page - Medieval history Circular Villages - Medieval city planning. In English and French. Roads to Ruins, the Castles of Germany Joan's Mad Monarchs Series - Short biographies of the personal lives of history's mad monarchs, sadistic Sultans, terrible Tsars, crazy caesars and deranged dukes Musei Vaticani - The Vatican Museum The Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes The London Gazette- Munday Septemb 3, to Munday Septemp 10, 1666 All ye olde news that's fit to print Greenwood's Map of London 1827 Bath Postal Museum - History of the Post in the UK. United Kingdom Public Records Office - Over 1000 years of documents. The Atget Rephotographic Project - "Now and Then" comparisons of photos of Paris, from 1900-1926. The Empire That Was Russia - Recreated color photographs of Tsarist Russia. The Romanovs: Their Empire, Their Books - From the New York Public Library Revelations from the Russian Archives - Presented by the Library of Congress The Commissar Vanishes - Purging photographic evidence down the memory hole in Stalin's Russia. Africa Wonders of the African World - Presented by PBS and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Internet African History Sourcebook - Excellent starting point. Asia Internet East Asian History Sourcebook - Excellent starting point. National Palace Museum of China - Virtual China NOVA Online: Island of the Spirits - Home of the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people. The Nanking Atrocities - The reign of terror The Americas Bob's Your Uncle, Eh? - A great resource for Canadian genealogist. The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History - Searchable archive of the frontier northland The History of Mexico - Timeline of Mexican history Maya Ruins - A photographic tour of sites in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala Orinoco Online - History of the Venezuelan Amazon. Also in Spanish and Portugese. Cuban Heritage Digital Collection - Marvelous photos from the collections of the Univeristy of Miami. The South Pacific The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre - A tribute to the men and women of the outback Archives of Australia- The Gateway to Australia's Archives Indigenous Australia - Stories of the Dreaming NZHistory.net.nz- Online encylopedia of New Zealand history National Archives of New Zealand- Te Whare Tohu Tuhituhinga O Aotearoa The Poles NOVA: Shackleton's Anarctic Odyssey - A harrowing tale of survival in 1914 KODAK: The Endurance - Photos which survived the ill-fated Shackleton expedition Music Smithsonian Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - One of the best collections around Organ Historical Society - Pull out the stops Band Music from the Civil War Era - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - A Library of Congress - American Memory page The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection - 29,000 pieces of music from 1780 - 1960. Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry - The man who was responsible for the development of the microphone and flat disc recordings. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. History in Song - Sing it loud, sing it proud. The Blue Highway - The history of the blues. Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Over 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs.
Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza - Music of the Roaring 1920s - 23 Skidoo! Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music - Music that gives you wings. From the collections of the Smithsonian. California Folk Music Home Page - Folk music of the 1930's. A Library of Congress - American Memory page Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns - Companion web site to the PBS documentary. The Golden Age of Jazz - Photos from the Jazz Age
Jazz Age Chicago - From 1893 to 1934 Now What a Time - Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Goldband Recordings - Cajun, zydeco, blues, rhythm and blues, rockabilly and swamp pop. Every one a musical treat. A Brief History of Banned Music - From Elvis to Eminem
Sports and Recreation Hickok's Sports History - The starting point for exploring sports history The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Go for the gold.
Baseball Cards 1887-1914 - A Library of Congress - American Memory page Babe Ruth Museum - History of the Babe, and also the Baltimore Orioles and Colts. By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s - 1960s - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - From 1943 to 1954 International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach - Cowabunga! Entertainment An American Ballroom Companion, Dance Instruction Manuals, ca 1490-1920 - One, two, three, cha-cha-cha. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Juggling History - Oops! American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 - A Library of Congress - American Memory page And Now... Houdini ! - Remember, Rosalie. Houdini - The man behind the myth. Presented by PBS. DeMoulin Bros. Catalog - Odds and ends for wacky Masonic pranksters in 1930. Defunct Amusement Parks Home Page - The kind that the bad guys in Scooby-Doo hang out at Laff in the Dark - The world of Dark Ride and Funhouse Amusements. Sideshow Art - Sideshow entertainment and history. Step right up.
A Visit to Yesterland - The Discontinued Disneyland - Tracks the changes that have been made to Mickey's Kingdom
Photography Daguerreotypes: America's First Look into the Camera - A Library of Congress - American Memory page American Photography: A Century of Images - Companion website to the PBS documentary. The American Museum of Photography - Many online exhibits Beyond the Grave: A Brief History of Spirit Photography - Or maybe just a smudge on the lens. Eadweard Muybridge - Stillness in motion. Kodak Girl - Images of female photographers.
Fred Stein Photography - Historical portraits and photographs of people and places of the 1930s and 1940s.
Bleak Beauty: The destruction of lower Manhattan, 1967 - Danny Lyon's photos of buildings that were destroyed to make way for the World Trade Center. Fine Arts
Tattoo History - Tattoo you? Paint By Numbers - The Smithsonian's history of this overlooked art form. A New Deal for the Arts - U.S. sponsored art of the 1930s The Wolfsonian - Fine collection of modern art, with emphasis on Art Deco. Labor Arts - The artistic history of working people. Theatre and Motion Pictures
Edison Motion Picture and Sound Recordings - A Library of Congress - American Memory page Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921- A Library of Congress - American Memory page American Museum of the Moving Image Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive - Digitized films which focus on life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. Includes the amazing Prelinger archives. Demille's Lost City - Excavation of a 1923 film set for "City of the Pharaoh"
Silent Era - Sound off. Chaplin Film Locations, Then & Now - Superb archive of Chaplin's filming locations, compared to their present day state. Universal Studios Archives and Collections - Exhibits, a research library, a timeline and more Federal Theatre Project Collection - The New Deal stage. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. The American Experience - Citizen Kane - Rosebud!
Fred Astaire.net - Tap dancing his way into your heart. One in Ten: Adrian Scott and the Hollywood Ten - A tale of the Hollywood blacklist Drive In Theater - Hide in the trunk of your friend's car
Radio & Television The Official Yesterday USA Home Page - The radio of yesteryear The Serial Squadron - Movie, radio and other serials. Radio Days: A Soundbite History - Includes timelines Radio Spirits - Classic radio information A Day in Radio - One day's worth of radio broadcasting from the 1930s. The Broadcast Archive - Archive with links to radio resources Transistor Radios - A large gallery of radio images.
Big Dream Small Screen - Philo Farnsworth's role in the invention of television. The World's Earliest Televison Recordings - Restored - British TV from 1927 - 1935. The Quiz Show Scandal - Corruption of television quiz shows in the 1950s. Presented by PBS. An Ernie Kovacs Page - WAY ahead of his time
Journalism OLD NEWS homepage - Interesting news articles from days gone by American Newspaper Repository - Over 5000 newspaper volumes, some of which have been lovingly digitized. The Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina - Download old Movietone Newsreels. The Media History Project - Promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels Newseum - The interactive museum of news The Historical New York Times Project - Ongoing digitization of the NYT. Literature & The Printed Word Paper, Leather, Clay, and Stone - The visual and tactile aspects of the written word. Linotype & Linotipisti - A history of linotype. En Italia. Book History Chronology - From A to Z, from then to now. The Internet Classics Archive - Old books for you to download International Dunhuang Project Bookbinding Pages - The history of Chinese bookbinding Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad
Aspects of the Victorian Book - Plentiful pages of information.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Aimed at youthful, working-class audiences and distributed in massive editions at newsstands and dry goods stores everywhere.
Soon's historical fiction site - Makebelieve stories based on reality Uchronia: The Alternate History List - "What if" stories Cartoons and Ephemera
Harpweek : Elections Homepage - Presidential elections from 1860-1864 as seen through the eyes of Harper's Weekly cartoonists. Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era - And kneeslappers they were An American Time Capsule, Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera - Over 28,000 posters, notices, advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, and business cards. A Library of Congress, American Memory page.
FDR Cartoon Collection Database - Political cartoons from the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
History: International Museum of Cartoon Art - Toon town The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion - Encyclopedia of obscure historical references within the cartoons
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War & Peace The Civil War American Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center - Searchable transriptions and digital images of letters and other documents Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the U. S. Civil War Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Civil War letters of the Christie Family - One family's letters, presented by the Minnesota Historical Society Civil War Maps - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Behind the Stonewall - 360 Degree Panoramic Images From Civil War Battlefields - Incredible images Chattanooga: A Road Trip through Time - Revisiting the locations of the battles of Chattanooga The Valley of the Shadow - The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. Hunley - The famous
Civil War submarine A Last Salute - An archaeological dig of Civil War vets who were almost forgotten. The Spanish-American War New York Public Library Online Exhibition of the Spanish American War Specific Topics General History Sites History House - Interesting essays on a variety of subjects History News Network - Because the past is the present and the future, too.
Directory of Discussion Lists for Historians - Join one today! H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine - For the scholarly historian MuseumStuff.com - Thousands of museum websites and virtual exhibits. A fantastic resource. WebChron - Hyperlinked chronologies of world history. DoHistory - How to piece together the past from fragments that have survived.
History Timelines on the Web ... The History Beat - Links to many timeline sites Timelines of History - More timelines. I, Witness to History - People's histories. This Day In History This Day in Ancient History - What happened when no one from today was around back then whowhatwhen - Easy-to-use interface dMarie Time Capsule - Find out what happened the day you were born.
Pre-History Strange Science: The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology - Dig them bones! Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources on the Internet Athena Review - Guide to archaeology on the internet
Maps Round Earth, Flat Maps - A National Geographic site
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Panoramic Maps Collection - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Map Collection: 1500 - 1999 - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Mapping the National Parks - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Historical Atlas of the 20th Century - A world of maps. Exploration and Discovery Home Page - The use of maps in American exploration. Welcome to TerraServer - Satellite photos Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names - Where exactly IS Springfield, anyway? Odden's Bookmarks - Thousands of cartographic links A Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web - Links to maps both real and imagined. Speeches & Historic Documents DOUGLASS - Archives of American Public Address - An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents Documents for the Study of American History - Famous documents from the 15th Century forward The Gilder Lehrman Collection - One of the largest collections of American historical documents in private hands. Sound Recordings EarthStation1: The Sights & Sounds of History Page - A large collection Save Our Sounds - From the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. Welcome to Webcorp Multimedia! - Historic audio archives. Mostly politicians History and Politics Out Loud - More audio archives. Lost and Found Sound - As heard on NPR Talking History - A radio show for "aural" historians. Architecture
Scottish Crannog Centre Homepage - A reconstruction of a lochside dwelling over 2,500 years old Websteader: Pioneer Sod Houses, c.1880 - 1998 - How do you keep a dirt house clean?
Legendary Lighthouses - A PBS website Within These Walls - Two centuries of a New Engalnd home. Presented by the Smithsonian. City Hall Station - In New York City Tenement Museum - The first tenement to be listed as an historic site. Art Deco Architecture - Streamlined buildings Built In America, 1933-Present - A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - Architecture from the 1930's, 40's and 50's. A Library of Congress - American Memory page. Roadside Architecture: Society for Commercial Archeology - Gas stations, pie palaces and more Googie Architecture On-Line - Populuxe, Doo-Wop, Coffee Shop Modern, Jet Age, Space Age and Chinese Modern Did You Bring Bottles? - Supermarket history and architecture.
Early Office Museum - The working world in the pre-cubicle era.
Crime & Punishment The Crime Library - Hundreds of sordid tales Salem Witch Trials - Documentary Archive and Transcription Project. Casebook - Jack the Ripper - The demon of Whitechapel The Lindbergh Case - The trial of the century
Warden Johnston's Alcatraz: 1933 to 1948 - One man's tenure CrimeLibrary: Black Dahlia - One of the more heinous unsolved crimes in Los Angeles' history Crimeboss - 1940's and 1950's crime comics. The Museum of Hoaxes - Fooled ya! Cemeteries Writ in Water: An International Gallery of Memorials for the Dead - Photos of historic cemeteries Find A Grave - Where almost everybody who was anybody is buried The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - A never-ending project Cemetery Interment Lists on the Internet - A detailed resource Cemetery Junction: Directory of U.S. Cemeteries Michael Nejman's To Die For - A Celebration of Cemeteries - An irreverent, stream-of-consciousness celebration of cemeteries Beneath Los Angeles - Images of gravesites in the City of the Angels
Festivals and Celebrations The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 - An historic celebration of an historic celebration. World's Columbian Exposition - Idea, Experience, Aftermath _ A very well-designed site Terry's 1904 World's Fair Page - St. Louis - The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition The 1939-40 New York World's Fair - The world of tomorrow Images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair - Advertisements, postcards and other wonderful images
Advertising Ad*Access - Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. adflip.com - Massive archive of print advertisements.
Fading Ad Campaign - A small collection of fading, yet barely visible, advertisements painted on the sides of old buildings in New York. Truth in Advertising - vintage cigarette & tobacco ads - Not a cough in a carton CreatAbiliTOYS! - The Museum of Advertising Icons
Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera - Beautifully illustrated.
Vintage Luggage Labels - The lost art of the luggae label. National Signs of the Times Museum - Ads by the side of the road Gallery of Regrettable Food - Yum yum It Came From the 1971 Sears Catalog! - Polyester and Rayon! Run Away! Disasters Almanac of Disasters - Just pick a date The New Madrid Earthquake - Massive 1812 earthquake in southern Illinois The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake - San Francisco in ruins Bath School Disaster - One of the worst mass murders of children in the United States. Eastland Disaster Historical Society - History of a Chicago & Great Lakes Steamliner Shipwreck The American Experience - Rescue at Sea - Two ships that collided off Nantucket Island in 1909 Andrea Doria - Tragedy and Rescue at Sea - Detailed website from an Andrea Doria survivor
The American Experience - Meltdown at Three Mile Island Pop Culture The Soda Fountain - Jerk yourself a soda
Material Culture of the 1950s - Try some today! The Work of Charles and Ray Eames - Function and Form Toy Ray Guns - ZZZZzzzap! Architectural Toys - Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, and more. Bad Fads - The fads you wished would stay forever (or never come back) Famous People Biography.com - Tonight on Biography® Lives, The Biography Resource - Links to thousands of biography sites. Their Stamp on History - Stories of the people on postage stamps. Philately will get you nowhere. The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers - Over 38,000 images. A Library of Congress, American Memory page. Emperor Norton's Archives - Info about Norton I, self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States.
The American Experience - Andrew Carnegie - Rags to riches Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University Languages, Writing & Communication counterspace - A history of Typography AmeriSpeak - Like, pretty cool, y'know? Time Clocks and Time: Horology site - Gotta minute? Clockworks: From Sundials to the Atomic Second - From Brittanica.com Calendars Through the Ages - The history of the human endeavor to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars. Genealogy Resources for Beginners - A Genealogy primer Oral History Questions -- The Gene Pool - Good questions to ask your elders FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service - Brought to you by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress AfriGeneas - African ancestored genealogy from Africa to the Americas. Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Possibly the finest collection of genealogy links on the net International Black Sheep Society Homepage - For the neer-do-wells in your family Passenger Lists on The Internet - Ships and immigrants Ellis Island Records - Understandably, a very busy site for genealogists. Ancient Faces - Help put names to these mystery photos. Social Security Death Index Interactive Search - You may already be dead! Mythology and Folklore Bulfinch's Mythology - 'The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes' Legends - Twice-told tales American Folk - People, folklore and popular culture Vices The Origins and Ancient History of Wine - A website, a jug of wine, and thou Coffee @ nationalgeographic.com - Java jive Dry Drunk: Introduction - Tobacco culture in 17th-18th Century Europe Food Culinary History Timeline - Dining through the ages. Antique Roman Dishes - Cook like the Romans did The History of Eating Utensils - Keep your elbows off the table. NY Food Museum - How New York ate 100 years ago.
The Museum of Bevarage Containers - I'll drink to that. Cracker Jack Prize Archives - Candy coated popcorn, peanuts, and a prize. The Condiment Packet Museum - Squirt.
Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum - Slurp it up Plants & Animals Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages - Fictitious flora Famous & Historic Trees at American Forests - Trees of history The International Museum of the Horse - Whoa! Kids Dig Reed - Reed Farmstead Archaeological Site in West Virginia. Health and Medicine Pre-1870 American Surgical Instruments & Amputation Sets - Nightmares are made of things like these. Medicine and Madison Avenue - Selling drugs.
Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health - Updated monthly The American Experience/Influenza, 1918 - The worst pandemic of the twentieth century
Eugenics Archive - The efforts to breed "better" human beings. Scary stuff
Clothing and Fashion Historical Boys Clothing - Most of which look uncomfortable Marquis de Kipár: Baroque Costumes - A flair for fashion Footwear of the Middle Ages - And did those feet in ancient times ... Solemates - The Century in Shoes - Decade-by-decade history of footwear in the 20th Century Vintage Hawaiian Shirts - Always a fashion statement. Beauty Shoppe Archives - Hairdos of history, from the 1920s to the 1970s Just For Fun The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less Maritime Magellan - The Ships Navigator - The ships encyclopedia. An important resource. Ships of Discovery - Underwater archaeology research institute and more The Swan, Duart Point Shipwreck - Fascinating archaeology of one of Cromwell's ships NOVA: Voyage of Doom - Discovery and excavation of the French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle's ship, La Belle. Canadian Privateering Homepage - Privately owned warships Welcome to Pirates! - Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum! Pirates of the Whydah - The Whydah sank off New England in April 1717. The National Geographic reports on her crew. Fulton's Submarine - Images from the Library of Congress Steamboats and Paddlewheels - Rollin' on the river
Queen of Nations - Maritime archaeology of a clipper that sank near Australia in 1881 California Shipwrecks - The coast is littered with them San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park - Located near Fisherman's Wharf Encyclopedia Titanica - Are you ready to go back to Titanic? Lost Liners - Ships of days gone by Monsters of the Sea Picture Gallery - Really big ships Mystic Seaport - America's leading maritime museum Railroads
Western New York Railroad Archive - Images, documents, and more Railroad Maps Collection - A Library of Congress - American Memory page American Experience: Streamliners - Art Deco rides the rails All Aboard the Silver Streak - Luxury travel
The Railways of Canada Archives - Preserving Canadian railway history one fact at a time
The Alweg Archives - Monorail mania. Automotive The Unofficial TATRA Automobile pages - Art Deco meets Czechoslovakian automotive engineering The Showroom of Automotive History: 1948 Tucker - One man's dream
Edsel.com - Everything Edsel. The Art of the Motorcycle - Wonderful online exhibit from the Guggenheim The Formula One Database - Everything you need to know about Formula One racing cars. Historic Wings - All sorts of aviation history
Aerofiles - American aviation from 1903 to 2003. The American Experience: Lindbergh - Lucky Lindy Earhart Project - What DID happen to Amelia Earhart? Aviation Archaeology - Restoration of old aircraft and much more Garber Web Camera - Live Cam showing aircraft restorations at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Aerospace John Glenn: Three Orbits to History - Friendship Seven and more NASA History Home Page - The official site NOVA - To The Moon - Companion to the PBS documentary. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal - Astronaut Transcripts Encyclopedia Astronautica - Space... and Beyond! Technology The Galileo Project - Vast resource on the life and science of Galileo Comets through the Ages - Great balls of fire! Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation - Keep watching the skies NOVA Online | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude - How the basis of navigation depends on knowing what time it is Sulabh International Museum of Toilets-- The history of toilets in India The History of Plumbing - Toilets, sinks, bathtubs, and more.
Technology in America: Timeline - From the lightning rod to the Hubble telescope The Museum of Retrotechnology - Lots of nifty old stuff found here, from the Russian gyrocar to voicetubes
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century - How engineering shaped a century and changed the world. A Century of Physics - 20th Century history presented by the American Physical Society Science Service Historical Image Collection - 20th Century scientific research. Presented by the Smithsonian. Gallery of Obscure Patents - Odd inventions
The British Lawnmower Museum - What could be "mower" fascinating? The Kerosene Lantern Connection - No need to curse the darkness Kilokat's Antigue Light Bulb Collector's Site - Now there's an idea. Icebox Memories - A history of ice processing and the tools of the trade
The American Experience -Technology in America/The Telephone - Hello? Telephone Exchange Names - Pennsylvania 6-5000 Telephone Tribute and Bell System Memorial - Remember Ma Bell? The Toaster Museum Foundation - A mighty toasty web site. Transistorized! The History of the Invention of the Transistor - A PBS web site
Retrofuture Today - The tomorrow that never happened.
Museum of Soviet Calculators - Most of which are smaller than a tractor VIDEOTOPIA - A history of video games. The Virtual Typewriter Museum - Hey, where's the ESC key?
The Computer Museum History Center - Hey, you're using one right now! Nethistory - Links to various Internet sites that tell us the history of accessing Internet sites. And so on. The First Virtual Mousepad Museum - History at your fingertips Ghost Sites - The history of forgotten websites |
